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Freudenberg plans to open competence centres in Europe

25 Jan '21

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Freudenberg Performance Materials Apparel is planning to concentrate on manufacturing base materials for interlinings in Weinheim. Base material finishing and coating will be bundled at Sant´Omero. For this purpose, two lines will be relocated from Weinheim to Sant´Omero. The company produces interlinings for all segments of the apparel industry.

Freudenberg Performance Materials Apparel is planning to bundle its technologies in competence centres in order to enable its European interlining business to thrive in future and to better fulfil the needs of European customers. Existing base material know-how is to be developed further in Weinheim. The Sant´Omero site is to be expanded to become a competence centre for finishing and coating. Customers would enjoy many advantages such as more flexible solutions, faster lead times and swifter delivery. At the same time, they could continue to benefit from the ‘product originating in Europe’ designation, the company said in a press release.

To accomplish this forward-looking ambition, Freudenberg Performance Materials Apparel is planning to relocate two lines for finishing and coating from Weinheim to Sant´Omero, along with one line from the site in San Martín, Argentina. This line was decommissioned and disassembled in 2017. Sant´Omero has a long tradition and extensive expertise in processing textile base materials for the manufacture of interlinings. The lines to be relocated are designed for all types of interlinings. The existing modern facility for base nonwoven production in Weinheim provides the ideal foundation for a competence centre. Furthermore, weft production will continue in Weinheim. The groundwork for this was laid with the acquisition of the woven and weft specialist, Hänsel, in 2015. It is planned to relocate the lines to Sant´Omero in the course of 2022. Until relocation commences, production in Weinheim would continue unchanged, at least for the full twelve months of 2021, according to Freudenberg.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)